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viEFA Mid-Decade AssessmentAcknowledgementsThis report contains summaries of the main presentations and recommendations madeby participants during the 7 th National EFA Coordinators Meeting/EFA Mid-DecadeAssessment Planning Meeting held in Bangkok in October 2005.As the main objective of the meeting was planning the national assessment, we like toabove all thank the Permanent Secretary and Vice Minister of Education and othersenior Ministry of Education officials and directors of education of planning andstatistics units and subject specialists from the 21 countries who participated in themeeting and the thematic working groups for the respective EFA goals.For acting as the lead speakers introducing the issues associated with the EFA Goals,we would like to thank in particular Olof Sandkull, Maki Hayashikawa, Aaron Benavot,Nath Bunroeun, Penelope Price, Jim Smith, Sahara Ahmad, Cliff Meyers, KulapraneeEmyoo, Sunee Klainin, Nittiya Kotchabhakdi, and Bill Brohier.We also thank the Thailand National Commission for UNESCO and the ThailandMinistry of Education for their contributions to the meeting, in particular its Secretary-General, Charuaypon Torranin.We also wish to thank the EFA Global Monitoring Report team in Paris and the ECCEdivision at UNESCO Headquarters for sending representatives to the meeting, inparticular Aaron Benavot and Hye-Jin Park.The participation of education officers from the UNICEF East Asia region and membersof the Thematic Working Group on EFA, including representatives of regional andinternational NGOs and donor agencies, and regional and country level UN agenciessupporting EFA initiatives, also contributed significantly to the meeting and this report.We also commend colleagues from the UNESCO field and cluster offices in the regionfor their significant inputs during the meeting and to this report. We are grateful to allthe participants who traveled to Bangkok to attend this meeting and make valuablecontributions to this report.Finally, we highly commend Ko-Chih Tung, UIS Regional Advisor for Asia-Pacific, forhis excellent work in spearheading the planning for the national and regional EFAmid-decade assessment and his overall guidance and direction in preparing this report.Sheldon ShaefferDirectorUNESCO Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for EducationEducation for All: Reaching the Unreached